Carlier, Jacques; Haouari, Mohamed; Kharbeche, Mohamed; … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 202 (2010) 3, pp. 636-645
This study investigates an optimization-based heuristic for the robotic cell problem. This problem arises in automated cells and is a complex flow shop problem with a single transportation robot and a blocking constraint. We propose an approximate decomposition algorithm. The proposed approach...